Interstellar Updates

NASA’s Exoplanet Excursions VR Experience
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/vr

Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e Case Study
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aad564

Multiple Disk Gaps and Rings Generated by a Single Super-Earth: II. Spacings, Depths, and Number of Gaps, with Application to Real Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06613

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Nine new double-line spectroscopic binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06895

Hydrogen and Sodium Absorption in the Optical Transmission Spectrum of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07010

A framework for planet detection with faint lightcurve echoes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07029

Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet Interiors from Dust Tails with Future James Webb Space Telescope Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07043

No Bootstrap Spaceships
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/bootstrap.pdf

The mass of the young planet Beta Pictoris b through the astrometric motion of its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06257

Billion-dollar telescopes could end up beyond the reach of US astronomers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05985-2

Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/placing-outer-space

Climates of Warm Earth-like Planets I: 3-D Model Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06480

Detection of Alpha Centauri at radio wavelengths: chromospheric emission and search for star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08338

Water-worlds are common: Exoplanets may contain vast amounts of water
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-water-worlds-common-exoplanets-vast-amounts.html

Warping a protoplanetary disc with a planet on an inclined orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05693

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: overall specifications and science program
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05772

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: optical and structural design concepts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05773

Panoramic optical and near-infrared SETI instrument: prototype design and testing
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05774

Exonephology: Transmission spectra from a 3D simulated cloudy atmosphere of HD209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05887

Is Humanity About To Accidentally Declare Interstellar War On Alien Civilizations?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/08/07/is-humanity-about-to-accidentally-declare-interstellar-war-on-alien-civilizations/#7cfdbdd026a9

Why Humanity Probably Won’t Accidentally Start An Interstellar War With An Alien Civilization
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thelabbench/2018/08/16/why-humanity-probably-wont-accidentally-start-an-interstellar-war-with-an-alien-civilization/#47e0d1c3dfa7

Tiny ASTERIA satellite achieves a first for CubeSats
https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-nasa-cubesat-asteria-exoplanet-transit-0815

Global-mean Vertical Tracer Mixing in Planetary Atmospheres I: Theory and Fast-rotating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09149

Global-mean Vertical Tracer Mixing in Planetary Atmospheres II: Tidally Locked Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05365

Atomic iron and titanium in the atmosphere of the exoplanet KELT-9b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0401-y

Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04824

Detecting free-floating planets using water-depend colour terms in the next generation of infrared space-based surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04828

SPHERE / ZIMPOL high resolution polarimetric imager. I. System overview, PSF parameters, coronagraphy, and polarimetry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05008

An ice giant exoplanet interpretation of the anomaly in microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0173
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00049